For a long time in the tech industry, the term “feature” has been used in a limited way, in my opinion, causing it to mislead people. Of course, software and hardware makers like it this way. Even with a feature as simple as “track skip”, we can b...

The Rise of the Personal Computer Way back, the mainframe used to be your “cloud”. You could access it from a number of places and work on the same data, but with it time-shared so much or that the company never upgraded it because it cost so much...

I have been working on a custom CSS stylesheet for my Markdown conversions to HTML that just gives things a bit more style than the plain HTML, but not the overkill that most stylesheets seem to. The problem was that when knocking up Markdown docs...

It seems they want you to not remember CES 2010 where Steve Balmer showed several tablets that were supposed to come this year but haven't. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-20026607-92.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547... But come January, they're ...

I came across a site, dashkards, that has some handy keyboard reference cards for Mac OS X’s Dashboard. They are done as Webclips. Of interest here are their cards for Markdown and Notational Velocity. However, I was having trouble with installing...

I had been using the Mac OS X Quicklook generator for Markdown by Phil Toland, but I came upon a fork of his code by Michael Dominic K. that I like better. By now the fork largely has no purpose since Phil’s code now uses the discount C library to...

So, to have a nifty way to preview any text you’re writing in Markdown on OS X 10.6, you can create a text service using Automator. For now, we’re going to assume you have a working installation of a command line Markdown to HTML converter. In thi...

I have recently been delving into the world of Markdown, an easy lightweight markup syntax, mostly geared for writing for the Web. One popular Markdown app for iOS is Markdown Mail. I wondered how I could hack together a way to compose an email in...